Press release
November 5, 2024, Wyoming County Community Health System (WCCHS) announced today that the dialysis clinic located at 11 Murray Hill Drive in Mt. Morris, NY will be closing due to ongoing staffing challenges and financial losses.
The dialysis clinic has six chairs located within the Livingston County Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation and was started in 2022. However, recruiting and retaining specially trained dialysis staff has been challenging. Further, the clinic has lost more than $2M in County funding since 2022. For these reasons, WCCHS has submitted a closure plan with the New York State Department of Health and will assist in finding alternative treatment locations for current dialysis patients.
“Operating a small dialysis clinic in a rural location has proven to be extremely challenging. Finding and retaining sufficient qualified staff to ensure safe patient care is our most critical priority. To compound matters the reimbursement for the clinic is not sufficient to cover operating costs, which has resulted in more than $2M in County funding loses since 2022.” stated CEO David Kobis. “It is unfortunate, but WCCHS cannot sustain this level of financial loss year after year. We will assist in finding alternative treatment locations for all of our current patients.”
About Wyoming County Community Health System
Wyoming County Community Health System (WCCHS) has served Wyoming County and the surrounding areas for more than 113 years and continues its commitment of providing outstanding healthcare services for our rural community. WCCHS is a full service, County-owned health system based in Warsaw, NY comprised of a 25 bed critical access hospital, a 10-bed inpatient behavioral health unit, a 138 bed Skilled Nursing Facility, and more than 10 primary and specialty care physician clinics. The hospital provides 24-hour emergency care as well as a range of services, including family and internal medicine, orthopedics and general surgery, podiatry, cardiology, inpatient mental health, neurology, endocrinology, , and a variety of other specialty services. WCCHS has outpatient clinics in Arcade, Attica, Perry, and Warsaw, NY.